Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-17

Reasons.
En- CourndR IN Chirrgo Tribune
Hdrper'S Bdsor has II long article on
"Why Should Not the Woman Bea Farm
err" The BaeT walks arOund the ques'
ton several times, prods it up on to its
feet, examines it closely, and concludes
that there is no reason why she shouldn't.
why" it continues, well clad and shod.
should she not follow in tue lurrOw?' I'll
tell YOU, my fashion. plate friend, or better,
Pn give you a little illustration from per
sonal experience why she should not, or,
if she will, show how it may be very rough
on her.
| heye followed in the iurrow' myself
and have helped to raise the already high
rate of mortality OF the people in the Pcsi-
ton. ] have died in the turrow several
times. That is | have laid down in the
lurrow and tried to die as hard as | could.
| remember once particularly when |
was about l6 years old and was following
in the furrow over by Johns woods with
the colts. | was going along all right
when suddenly the pillow handle rose up
and hit me somewhere in the region OF the
stomach, or. to speak in medical phrase,
about on the third vest button, and then
| laid dow n the moist, cold earth and
silently prayed for death.
At the end of five minutes had strength
enough to roll and kick and ill the air
with a cloud of dirt and howl loud enough
70 scare the colts so they ran away 10 the
other side of the field where they laid down
and braided their legs all up with a barbed
wire fence. After five minutes oil this
was able 10 open my eyes and saw thecold.
stony, mOcking smile on the ten-tOn rock,
now protrudiDg above the ground, which
had caused the slaughter. Another five
minutes and | had recovered the power OF
speech and used it; hut let us draw
A veil over this; all | wish to say Is Ia
| ask the Bazdy where its m Will he IN
| snch a case as this? 1t might not 20 any
harder with her thar it did with me. But
even il il didn't, the Bd-U would have
hard work to ever detect that woman
following in the turrow' again,
Again il asks: why should she not
| driyethe team q field?" Why? WHY, he
cause she cant't drive it 2 street vet-nOt
without running down two or three men
| and a half a dozen children, going right
over "A street car, colliding with n load OF
hay, and ,rotting the team up n hill III
the horses have TO lean up against a lam
post to recover their breath. II the woman
ever gets to making a practice OF drivms
the team a-tield the growing crops will al
be trampled down and there will be /
famine.
The sum-" insists the Bazdr, is no les.
hot in the garden than on the beach. No,
the Bazar has struck it now. 1t ism
any less hot, but il is lust about lot" more
hot, and sometimes it CrawiS up 1000 o.
300 hotter. And sultry too. Aud muggy
also. And likewise suns;rucky. Th'
Basar woman will find it ont when slit
gets into the garden.
The Bazar admits that perhaps some o
the hardest of the work might sometime
need be done by ''hireliugs and assistants
That is the Bnzn'S way vt reierirg to IN
hired man. But there Is more trouble here
When he comes hack from town Sunda,
night wearing a new red and blue Mack
NAV suit, and begins to crook his elbows
and walk around the yard NTH his CHI
out looking for something to fight, ID
woman farmer will have to go off and hir
some male Turner to come and pound tn
man all over the place and get him dow
ready for the weeks work. Till a woma
can lick the hired mar and spear the bogu
patent-right sharp with a %pitchfOrk at ;
paces she has no business on a farm.
There are doubtless other objections
the on the farm, but | trust
these few lines | have at least shown tina
the successful woman farmer does not :
much require to be an accomplished mu
sician and a Skiitul smateur artist ~ tbs
she shall he able to hold an unruly ploug
down in the ground when it tries TO buck
and have the faculty Of chasing 4 tram
ont of the henhouse and down across I'll
pasture. and of hitting him with an iro
pGmp-handle as be gets over the fence.